Waiters Day Race

Lviv celebrated Waiters Day on May 21st – a day to recognize the front of house staff at all of Lviv’s myriad dining establishments. Whether a waiter in a fine dining eatery like Amadeus, or a shaker in the Chelentano diner, or a barista in Svit Kavy, Waiters Day celebrates all restaurant business staff and hopes to inspire people to begin a career in the city’s burgeoning hospitality industry. It hopes to change the perception that a waiter is an unskilled job that requires long hours and to show that a career in the industry offers skill development, opportunity for advancement, and enticing rewards. It is also a chance to celebrate the excellence, dedication, hard work, and discipline of all those fine people that keep all of the city’s eateries buzzing.

As part of the celebrations, a Waiters Day Race was held, where participants were forced to run 100 metres while carrying a glass of water on a tray in one hand and a white towel in the other. Nazar Fita of the Lvivska Kopalnya Kavy café won a gift certificate as the race winner, while Oleh Radkevych and Ivanna Ivankiv of Livyi Bereh (Left Bank) restaurant took home prizes as winners of the Peoples’ Choice categories.